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(More customer reviews)In my business, I need lots of portable storage. So I am always scanning for sales on large capacity 2.5" external drives. Most of the time, I wind up buying 500GB external drives because they seem to go on sale more often. This time, however, I was able to buy the Hitachi X750 Mobile 750 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive at an extremely attractive price. But like so many extremely attractive offers, the bargain may be too good to be true.
Good move. Hitachi drives are historically excellent and I don't expect these to be anything less.
The design doesn't exactly thrill me and the idea that the "ergonomic" styling adds any utility to the drive is, in my opinion, a bit far-fetched. But they are nice looking and something of a departure from the normal boxy external hard drive. The warranty on these units is short, only a year. I strongly suggest at least looking into extended warranties. It is my opinion that this kind of hard drive should carry a three-year warranty, but that is only my opinion.
I lowered my rating from five stars to three because of the warranty issue. I opened up the box of one these drives yesterday, plugged it in and heard some really major rattles. No way was I going to use that drive, which I had purchased in January, 2011. I checked Hitachi's website to learn the return procedure and was shocked to learn that the warranty starts when the drive leaves the factory! Thus, my "one year warranty" expires in November - ten months after my purchase. I consider this to be a very consumer unfriendly policy and will hesitate to purchase Hitachi drives in the future.
The drives are literally silent. A pair of LEDs on the underside keep you informed as to drive activity. Read/Write speeds are par for the course.
Oddly, the drives come formatted with FAT32 which is increasingly archaic. I immediately reformatted them as NTFS.
Hitachi includes backup software on the hard drive out of the box, but I didn't even bother with it.
Overall, shop carefully, find these on sale and enjoy the wonders of massive desk space. They're also fine values at their everyday price as well.
04/20/2011
I've lowered my ranking of this drive to 1-star. The second of four the drives I purchased failed with the same symptom I described above, a very pronounced clicking. Could be a head crash. Point is that the odds of two drives of a batch of four failing with the same symptom are astronomically high. I understand Hitachi is in the process of selling its hard drive unit. Doesn't matter: I will avoid this once fine brand in the future.
Jerry
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